Ribbon Trees

The woman's group at Windover Hills did a Christmas craft in December. We made ribbon trees. It was a fun evening. The craft is quite simple, once you get the hang of it. This is the tree I made. This is a tree someone else made, but I really liked it.

Here are all of the trees that were made. Aren't they pretty?

Here is one of my friends from the church, working on her tree. I am posting this to kind of show you a how-to pic.

A brief outline of the directions is...take a styrofoam cone, numerous things of coordinating ribbon (varying widths) and straight craft pins. You start with the widest ribbon and cut it about 5 inches long. fold it in half and pin this a few inches from the bottom of the cone (just so the fold of the ribbon sits nicely on the table). Continue this all the way around, slightly overlapping the ribbon. Then you take your next pattern of ribbon and do the same on the second row. You can decide how far up to pin it, just be sure it covers the pins on the ribbon below it. For the third row, you cut your ribbon a bit shorter. (maybe 4 1/2 inches) and you continue. As you get closer to the top continue making your strands of ribbon shorter and shorter until the top is about 2 inches. The possibilities are endless with this and it makes a great centerpiece. (I bought small cones for the girls, and they even enjoyed this project...just be careful with little ones and straight pins-they had trouble holding on to them and kept dropping)